Refurbs

Its been almost 2 months since apple released the new macbooks and macbook pros, and yet we haven't seen a single one make it to the refurb page yet. I thought it might been this week since their stock was dwindling on the old versions, but today a bunch more appeared. I'm thinking it may be till after xmas now. Anyone else find that odd?

It's usually 6 to 8 weeks before they appear but I think the Mac Pro's took a little longer. It doesn't strike me as odd that we have not seen them yet. I have a feeling we won't see them until after the holiday season. I'd sure like an aluminum macbook.

The devices have to be sent to facilities from all over the world. They need to get the parts, testing devices and special tools. People have to be hired and trained to do the refurbing, they have to design and procure shipping materials and documentation, the devices have to get to the shipping place and all the people there have to know how to do that, how to bill out, etc.

Also, all the Apple personnel have to know what the policies, warranties, etc are, how to explain refurbs, etc. And there must be people who re-install the software.

The devices have to be sent to facilities from all over the world. They need to get the parts, testing devices and special tools. People have to be hired and trained to do the refurbing, they have to design and procure shipping materials and documentation, the devices have to get to the shipping place and all the people there have to know how to do that, how to bill out, etc.

Also, all the Apple personnel have to know what the policies, warranties, etc are, how to explain refurbs, etc. And there must be people who re-install the software.

It is a big enterprise for sure. I love refurbs.

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That infrastructure shouldn't have changed from the previous generation of macbooks/macbook pros. Thus the turnaround would be much faster than what you describe. What you described would literally take years to set up from scratch.

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